Author Archives: Michael McFadden

#Trust30 Challenge- Day 3 – One Strong Belief

Today’s writing challenge… One Strong Belief by Buster Benson It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. – Ralph Waldo [...]

#Trust30 Challenge – Day 2

Day 2′s #Trust30 Challenge Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. The force of character is cumulative. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance If ‘the voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks,’ then it is more genuine to be present today [...]

#Trust30 Challenge – Day 1 – 15 Minutes to Live

Today is day one of the Trust30# Challenge.  Learn more about the Challenge at http://ralphwaldoemerson.me/. Gwen Bell – 15 Minutes to Live We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons. – Ralph Waldo Emerson You just discovered you have [...]

Love and Logic Refresher

Last night we met up with several parents for a a Love and Logic refresher.  We took a 4 or 6 week class with the same parents about a year or year and half ago.  I was reminded about a few things: Parenting together is fun – it’s great to have several parents all walk [...]

Need Inspiration? Check Ed’s Story…

Watch this video from a pastor that was diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease).  You can learn more about Ed’s Story at his website too.

Next Read: Do The Work by Steven Pressfield

I just finished The War of Art and HIGHLY recommend it.  If you want to create something (art, books, a business, music,  anything) and haven’t then you need to pick it up.  Here’s what Publishers Weekly said about it: Novelist Steven Pressfield (The Legend of Bagger Vance; Gates of Fire) goes self-help in The War [...]

Denver is 8th in Small Business Vitality

Denver finds itself 8th out of 100 large US cities on their ability to create and develop small businesses by The Business Journals.  Denver falls behind Austin, Oklahoma City, Charleston, S.C., Charlotte, Seattle, Tulsa and Raleigh.  Washington and NYC are in the 9th and 10th spots.  I’m not really shocked.  I feel like there is [...]